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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: allow to enable/disable cpuid bits

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: allow to enable/disable cpuid bits
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:07:29 +0000
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Christoph Egger writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: allow to enable/disable 
cpuid bits"):
> 
> Allow to enable/disable SVM specific cpuid bits
> in the guest config file via cpuid config option.
> Also allow to enable/disable the hypervisor cpuid bit
> in the guest config file. We need to disable the
> hypervisor cpuid bit to get Hyper-V going.

The change itself looks plausible to me.  However I don't know much
about cpuid; can you get an ack from a hypervisor maintainer or an
suitable expert ?

Thanks,
Ian.

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